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Wearing Cammies on a Bicycle

I recently moved off base and was wondering if I could take my bicycle to work in cammies. I read the order and it says they are authorized while traveling directly to and from work in a Personally Owned Vehicle (POV).

I know this is a different time, with a different set of circumstances, but when I lived/was stationed in Greece I used to ride my bike to base from my off base love shack,, I mean house. Any way, I had to ride in PT gear. Again, completely different set of circumstances, although they share similarities.

Personally, I'd rather ride in PT gear for the comfort and the visibility issue -- people drive like idiots and might not see you in cammies.

Good luck -- FWIW, the year I spent riding my bike (in PT gear) to base in Greece is when I got my best PFT run time ever.

Its pretty damn muggy there, I wouldn't wear my work clothes while biking to work everyday. Those things don't breath all that well. Plus the MARCOR is really super gay about uniforms now....they are really trying to push people out to accommodate the force reduction. I would walk on egg shells with all this kind of minuscule crap being focused on.

A bicyclist by traffic law definition is a pedestrian and a bicycle isn't considered a POV so I would not wear cammies at all. When I was on I&I, there was a Sgt that lived right across the street from the reserve training center we worked (from his apt, a little kid can throw the ball and hit the fence line of the rtc- that's how close it was). Unless he was on a motorcycle or car, driving to and from the rtc, he cannot even come to work in cammies.

There are very few instances where you would wear cammies out in public other than emergencies and operating a tactical vehicle that has some leeway depending on your assignment or duty.

Oh and Marines thinking about pt'ing in boots and uts out in public? Don't do it.I did it because when I asked my NCO he said, 'Yeah, it's technically pt gear.' My NCO and I had a stern talk from my plt sgt for doing that as a Lance even though the order didn't really specify about boots and uts.

In 2003 on MCAS New River, I was told we had to get base permission to pt in boots and utes....on base roads!

The majority of the time when I wear cammies to and from work I wished I brought civies. You never know when you might have to run out in town or an old friend rings and wants to to meet up right after work.